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Over 274,400 people have died of the novel Coronavirus in 541 cities across Iran, according to reports tallied daily by the Iranian opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) as of Sunday afternoon local time, May 2, 2021.

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Iranian workers marked the International Workers’ Day(May Day) by marches and protest gatherings in Tehran and 19 other cities. Some 30 participants, including women, were arrested in the protest outside the Labor Ministry in  capital, Tehran. Despite suppressive measures, Iranian workers held protests in Tehran, Karaj, Mashhad, Tabriz, Kermanshah, Boroujerd, Arak, Bojnourd, Khorramabad, Ilam, Ahvaz, Rasht, Sari, Isfahan, Qazvin, Maragheh, Shush, Shahinshahr, Neyshabur, Sanandaj, and Qom. Retirees, teachers and students accompanied Iranian workers in these protests. The protest and march in Tehran was held across from the Labor Ministry. Advocate of workers’ rights, Asal Mohammadi, was among those arrested. The regime dispatched its repressive forces of the State Security Force, Intelligence Ministry and plainclothes agents to the protest venues to prevent their formation or continuation. Workers clashed with security forces in some places. Dozens of workers were arrested in Tehran and Karaj. https://tinyurl.com/6nxhp8hs

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30 women wounded by the Iranian regime's State Security Forces over cutting walnut trees in Iran's Sarab-e Kahman in western Lorestan Province. The SSF troops attempted to cut down the walnut trees in this village on Wednesday, April 28. ‌But they met staunch resistance of the residents of the village because the trees are their source of income and they have spent years to grow them. The SSF special unit fired tear gas on the residents and shot them with pellet guns, wounding a large number of them. 30 women were wounded. https://tinyurl.com/t5bsndme

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The Iranian regime’s security forces ransacked the residences of at least 19 Baha'i families residing in Baharestan county in Isfahan, central Iran, on Sunday, April 25, and Tuesday, April 27. They arrested nine Baha’i women during this violent raids which started at 6 a.m. and lasted until 1 p.m. The nine Baha’i women are: Roya Azad-Khosh, Maryam Khorsandi, Sara Shakib, Firouzeh Rastinejad, Sanaz Rasteh, Azita Rezvani, Mojgan Pour-Shafi, Nasrin Khademi, and Noushin Hemmat. Their lap tops, mobile phones, books and pamphlets on their faith, family photos and CDs were also confiscated. https://tinyurl.com/uejuwyts

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Branch 15 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court issued another one year prison term for British-Iranian dual-national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliff. She was also banned from leaving Iran for one year. After serving her five years in prison, Ms. Zaghari had been released from Evin Prison in early March but was still banned from leaving the country. On April 26, 2021, her lawyer reported Ms. Zaghari’s latest sentence. She is charged with “propaganda against the state” through taking part in a protest gathering in London outside the Iranian regime’s embassy in 2009 where she spoke to the BBC’s Farsi service! Nazanin Zaghari was a project manager with the Thompson Reuters Foundation, when she traveled to Iran along with her two-year-old daughter Gabriella in March 2016 to pay a visit to her parents. She was detained at the airport on April 3, 2016, as she and her daughter were about to board a flight back to the UK. After months of imprisonment without trial, she was sentenced to five years in prison. https://tinyurl.com/yt3suwwj